Sequel Chords by Harry Chapin

_ [G] So here [Em] she's acting happy _ [D] inside [Bm] her handsome home.
[G] And me, [D] I'm flying in my taxi, _ [C] taking [A#] tips and [D] getting stoned.
I _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [D] got into town a little early, _ had eight hours to kill before the show.
_ First I thought about heading up north to the [C] bay, then I knew [A#] where I had to [D] go.
_ [Am] I [D] _ _ _ .
_ thought [Am] about taking a [D] limousine, [Am] _ .
[D] or at least a [Am] fancy [D] car _ .
But I ended [Am] up taking [D] a taxi, [Am] _ .
[C] cause that's [A#] how I got [D] this far _ .
_ _ _ You [G] see, ten years ago it [Em] was the front seat, [D] driving stoned and feeling [Bm] no pain.
_ [Em] Now [G] here I am straight, [D] and sitting in the back, [C] hitting [A#] sixteen [D] Parkside Lane.
_ The _ _ .
_ [C] _ [Gm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ .
_ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ driveway was the same as I remembered, and a booklet came and answered the door.
[Bm] He [E] just shook his head when I asked for her, [D] and said she doesn't live here [E].
anymore.
_ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ .
_ _ Body offer to give me the address, that they were forwarding her letters to.
I just took it and returned to the cabbie and said I [D] got one [Am] more fare [E] for you.
_ _ [D] And [Am] _ _ [E] _ .
_ _ so we rode back into [G] the city, _ up [A] to a five story old [C].
brownstone.
I [D] rang the bell and had her name [E] on the mailbox, [D] the buzzer [Am] said [E] somebody's home.
_ _ [Am] And _ _ [E] _ .
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [E] _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ the look on her face [G] as she opened the door was [A] like an old joke told [C] by a friend.
It'd [D] taken ten more years but [E] she'd found her smile, [D] and I watched [Am] the corner [E] start to bend _ _ .
_ [A] And she said, how are [F#m] you Harry, _ [E] haven't we played this scene before.
[Bm] _ [A] _ I said, it's so [E] good to see you Sue, and to play [Am] it out just [E] once more.
_ [D] Play it out [G] just [E] once _ more.
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [E] _ .
_ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ .
_ _ _ _ _ She said I've heard you flying high on my radio, I said it's not all it seems.
That's when she laughed and she said, it's better [D] sometimes when we don't get [A] to touch [E] our dreams.
_ [D] _ .
_ [Am] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ .
_ [Am] _ _ [E] _ _ That's [A] when I asked her where was that [F#m] actress, [C#m] she said that was [B] somebody [E] else.
And then [C#m] I asked her why she looked so happy [E] now, she [D] said I finally like myself _ .
At last I like [E] myself _ .
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_ _ _ So we talked all through that afternoon, _ talking about where we'd been.
_ We talked of the tiny _ difference [C#] between ending and starting to begin.
[F#m] We talked cause talking tells you things like what you really [F#] are thinking _ [D] about.
_ [Am] But sometimes you can't [C] find what you're feeling [E] till all your words run out _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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_ So I asked her to come to the concert, _ she said no I work at night.
I said we've gotten too damn good at leaving Sue, [D] she said [A] Harry [E] you're right.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ .
_ _ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ _ .
_ Don't [A] ask me if I made [F#m] love to her, or [E] which one of us started to [Bm] cry.
[E] _ [A] Don't [C#m] ask me why she wouldn't take the [E] money that I left, [Am] if I answered it [E] all that lie.
_ [D] So _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ _ .
_ [C] _ _ _ [A#] _ [D] _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ I thought about her as I sang that night, and how the circle keeps rolling around.
_ How I act as I'm facing the footlights, and [C] how she's flying [Gm] with both feet [D] on the ground.
_ I _ .
_ [G] guess it's a sequel [Em] to our story from [Bm] the journey between heaven and hell _ .
[G] With half the time thinking [D] of what might have been, [C] and half [Gm] thinking [D] just as well.
_ I guess [Em] _ _ .
_ only _ _ _ [A] _ .
time _ _ _ _ [D] will _ .
_ [G] _ _ tell.
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